There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
~By Jewel Kilcher ~
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
~By Louis Nizer ~
But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.
~By Jason Biggs ~
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
~By June Jordan ~
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
~By Richard Rolle ~
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy.
~By Tom Berenger ~
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
~By Ed Markey ~
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
~By William Bell ~
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
~By Dian Fossey ~
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
~By Freya Stark ~
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
~By George Eads ~
Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
~By Richard Pryor ~
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
~By Ernest Gaines ~
It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
~By Britney Spears ~
Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
~By Tea Leoni ~
No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.
~By GG Allin ~
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
~By Dave Thomas ~
I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
~By George Michael ~
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
~By Iris Chang ~
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
~By Jerry Garcia ~
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
~By Roald Dahl ~
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug.
~By Joan Severance ~
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~By Jane Austen ~
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
~By Peter Banks ~
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
~By Treat Williams ~
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
~By Blair Underwood ~
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
~By Antony Sher ~
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
~By Art Spiegelman ~
I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
~By Ramakrishna ~
They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
~By Matthew Henry ~
I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
~By Robin Gibb ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
~By Franz Kafka ~
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
~By John Buchan ~
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.
~By Amanda Marshall ~
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
~By Antoine Lavoisier ~
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
~By Meg Cabot ~
I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.
~By Gina Gershon ~
We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.
~By Anthea Turner ~
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.
~By Paul Farmer ~
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
~By George Clooney ~
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
~By Geddy Lee ~
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
~By Paul Nurse ~
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
~By John Hughes ~
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
~By Todd Solondz ~
We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.
~By Roscoe Bartlett ~
In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
~By Sophia Bush ~
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
~By Maya Lin ~
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
~By Ernest Renan ~
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
~By Ricky Ponting ~
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
~By Mac Davis ~
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
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